Gujarat
is experiencing proxy war and not just a communal riot. Indian
Muslims have become pawns in Pakistan’s Jihad against India.

‘Diabolical
designs’

In a recent article, Lt. Gen. Narasimhan (Retd.)
highlighted an important strategic point about the Gujarat
disturbances. They are part of Pakistan’s plans to create turmoil
in India so that army troops that are guarding the border are drawn
in to control the riots. After its massive defeat in the 1972
Bangladesh War, Pakistan realized that it would be wiped out in a
conventional war with India. So it evolved a strategy of low
intensity warfare in Kashmir that would keep large numbers of India
troops involved. This year Pakistan engineered the Godhra attack and
instigated the flare up in Gujarat to draw the army in. As The
Pioneer recently reported (‘Diabolical Design,’ April 22,
2002):

“The game plan is to push freshly-recruited and trained
terrorists into Kashmir and merge them with predominantly local
Kashmiri terrorist groups like the Hijb-ul Mujahideen to herald a
summer of bloodshed. The plan is part of the unfinished agenda of
Kargil, 1999, which President Musharraf had masterminded. The danger
along the LoC is apparent; field commanders are naturally worried
about the fall-out of a heavy military engagement. A strong
counter-offensive would therefore serve as the right deterrent to
stymie Pakistan's diabolic designs in the Kashmir Valley this
summer.”

This is helped if Indian army units are
moved from Kashmir to places like Gujarat. Godhra, and possibly more
such future provocations are part of the same plan—to engage the
army in keeping peace within India instead of guarding the Indo-Pak
border, to redress the major military advantage that India enjoys
over Pakistan.

To the military unbalance should be
added the growing economic unbalance. While the Indian economy is
growing by leaps and bounds, Pakistan is turning into an economic
basket case. As a result, when India moved its forces to the ready
position on the Indo-Pak border, Pakistan quickly realized that it
could not afford to maintain the position indefinitely as India can.
And a recent World Bank report admitted as much, saying that
maintaining troops in readiness was an intolerable drain on its
economy. As a result, what we are seeing in Gujarat is the extension
of the proxy war into other parts of India, using willing elements
in the Indian Muslim community and its ‘leaders’.

Yet, despite these overwhelming odds,
the Pakistani leadership, General Musharraf included, is not willing
to let go of its imperial designs. And, true their form, Indian
‘secularists’, especially the English language media, have
become their mouthpiece. One needs to go no further than the columns
of Sri Kuldip Nayar, the prince of Hindu-baiters. He has not only
claimed that Gujarat is even worse than the Partition, but even gone
so far as to proclaim that Gujarat explosion was pre-planned, which
would have taken place even without the attack on the Sabarmati
Express at Godhra! What is his evidence—he has none. We must take
him at his word. But this calumny was picked up first by the British
mission and then the European Commission, ever anxious to find some
means to please the Muslims.

European
Dhimmis

To understand the antics of the British mission
and the European commission, we need to recognize that they are
living in a state of perpetual fear of Muslims in their own
countries. The ultra-conservative candidate Jean-Marie le Pen has
captured the imagination of French voters by appealing to the fear
of Muslim migrants. At the same time they are aware of the
dependence of their materialistic civilization on Islamic oil. This
has given rise to a mindset that the Islamic scholar Bat Ye’or
calls Dhimmitude.Dhimmitude
is nothing but negationist accommodation rooted in fear. As
Brigadier Malik wrote in his seminal The Quranic Concept of War: “Once
a condition of terror into the opponent’s heart is obtained,
hardly anything is left to be achieved… Terror is not a means of
imposing decision upon the enemy; it is thedecision we
wish to impose upon him.” Muslims have essentially succeeded in
imposing this fear in the minds of a large section of the European
ruling class.

Their latest exercise of a report on the
Gujarat violence is an exercise in dhimmitude. Britain in particular
is scared that a British national, Omar Sheikh has become the target
of investigation in the US and Pakistan for the kidnap and murder of
the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. So the death
of two Gujarati Muslim British nationals came as a handy excuse for
the British to prove to the Muslims that they were on their side.
(What were they doing in Gujarat in the first place? Were they like
Omar Sheikh, ISI agents working for Pakistan?)

This too is part of dhimmitude. As Bat Ye’or
pointed out: “Today, the United States and Europe compete for the
favor of the Muslim world by once again abandoning the victimized
peoples to its mercies. The Gulf War against Saddam Hussein on the
question of oil interests (1991) was redeemed by the destruction of
Yugoslavia and the creation of new centers of Islamist influence in
the heart of the Balkans… The war to annihilate Serbia was
intended to punish the crimes of Milosevic and his regime, but the
media campaigns endeavored to calm the anti-Westernism in the Muslim
world and of Muslim immigrants in Europe. It also helped to gain
forgiveness for the war on Iraq by a strong pro-Muslim
counterbalancing policy in the Balkans.” This is what the European
Commission, with Britain in the lead is trying to do in Gujarat
also— currying favor with the Muslim world by attacking the
Narendra Modi Government.

Secularism
= Minorityism + Dhimmitva

While the Europeans—and the Americans
to a lesser extent—are driven by their dhimmitude, the Indian
secularists are driven by more complex emotions. While dhimmitude,
which in the Indian context should be called ‘Dhimmitva’, is a
significant component of their mindset there are also factors like
career and credibility. Godhra has called their bluff, just as
surely as the ‘Harappan horse’ called the bluff of their hero
Michael Witzel. Like him, they have lost all credibility and feel
humiliated. Their outlook all along has been that the majority
should live like dhimmis—or contented slaves—while they
themselves enjoy the privilege and protection of their imperial
masters by heaping insult on everything that their Hindu brothers
and sisters hold sacred. This is what they call secularism, which is
really nothing more than a combination of minority communalism and
dhimmitva.

This cozy world has now collapsed. They have to
face the wrath of an enraged mass and the continuing decline of
their patrons. They see no choice left to them but indulge in
endless negation, just as Witzel is doing denying everything from
the horse to the Sarasvati River. Kuldip Nayar’s latest exercise
inventing a vast conspiracy that seeks to erase the role of Godhra
is the latest episode in this negationist exercise. It also points
to the direction in which the secularist dhimmis are moving. We can
expect more of the same, leading to more and more absurd exercises.
Recent events have shaken them beyond the realm of reason.

The tragedy of this is that these dhimmis are
now too concerned about their own existence to see the obvious
danger to India of the proxy war moving to Gujarat, later to spread
across other parts of the country. Instead of reflecting on the
folly of their past positions, they are pouring more fuel on the
fire by increasing the intensity of their anti-Hindu rhetoric. This
carries a special message for Indian Muslims: neither Pakistan nor
the secularists care a hoot for them. As far as they are concerned,
Indian Muslims are just deluded pawns to be used in advancing their
own interests. The Muslims and their leaders should recognize the
danger and reject their siren song communalism masquerading as
secularism. With friends like these they need no enemies. A safe
India, not strong Pakistan, is their best safeguard even if it
doesn’t suit the secularist dhimmis.